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Authors at home : personal and biographical sketches of well-known American writers / edited by J.L. & J.B. Gilder.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--United States.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Literary landmarks.
- United States.
- Literary landmarks--United States.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 398 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A. Wessels Company, 1902.
- Contents:
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- George Bancroft
- George Boker
- John Burroughs
- George W. Cable
- S.L. Clemens (mark Twain)
- George William Curtis
- Dr. Edward Eggleston
- Edward Everett Hale
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Prof. J.A. Harrison
- Col. John Hay
- Col. T.W. Higginson
- Dr. O.W. Holmes
- Julia Ward Howe
- William Dean Howells
- Charles Godfrey Leland
- James Russell Lowell
- Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel)
- Francis Parkman
- Prof. Goldwin Smith
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- Richard Henry Stoddard
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Mrs. Margaret Deland
- F. Marion Crawford
- Paul Leicester Ford.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has manuscript note in pencil on front free endpaper; manuscript note in pencil at head of title leaf; paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy: pages 205-208, 365-368 and 369-372 unopened at fore-edge.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916. Authors at home.
- OCLC:
- 3156095
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